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Save Mount Diablo is proud to announce that we’re officially opening 1.7 miles of publicly accessible trails through the upper portion of Curry Canyon Ranch, connecting more trails to Knobcone…
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Grab your hiking boots and explore Pinnacles National Park’s High Peaks Trail! Distance: 6.1 miles Elevation change: 1,633 feet Difficulty: Strenuous Hiking time: Three to six hours Trail surface: Dirt Best season: Fall, winter, and…
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High School Students from Campolindo and De La Salle Visit Mangini Preserve On October 26th and November 2nd, high school students paid our Mangini Ranch Educational Preserve a visit as…
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Victory: California’s Proposition 4 has passed! Prop. 4, the $10 billion climate bond, is incredibly important for Save Mount Diablo and our work. Numerous acres in the Diablo Range will…
Read MoreWith the help of ranchers, scientists, and land managers, Fire, Drought, Rain and Hope explores life in California’s inland Coast Range after the huge fires of 2020. It ventures into places off the beaten track for most Bay Area residents, yet deeply connected to places they already love.
Listen to Pearl Harbor Survivor Earl "Chuck Kohler" as he describes the events he witnessed during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
This speech is in honor of our Beacon Lighting Ceremony in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Audible Mount Diablo is an invitation to adventure. Its free multimedia tours combine lively interviews and music with the rush of wind and the chirps, howls, and growls of wildlife. Naturalists heighten visitors’ appreciation of the sights and sounds at each stop, tell tales of the mountain’s past, and suggest what to look for around the next bend. Photographs pop up to help identify plants and animals. Perfect to prepare for your first—or your 100th—trip up the mountain.
Why is this 3,849-foot mountain so central to California’s natural and cultural history? Discover the lore and legends of Mount Diablo State Park and surrounding wildlands. Perfect for your first (or 100th) drive up the mountain! Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the California State Parks Foundation. First published in 2010. Revised in 2017.
Featuring Seth Adams, Gary Bogue, Ken Lavin, Mike Moran, and Beverly Ortiz, with Carl Magruder as William Brewer.
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Welcome to this 16-part tour of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. In the late 1800s, these hills bustled with industry. There were some 900 miners—some as young as eight years old—and miles and miles of underground tunnels. It was the largest coal mining operation in California history. And nature largely has restored itself here to spectacular beauty and ecological health. Black Diamond Mines has so many different stories—cultural, resource. But what it really is is a story about ecological restoration.
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